Franprise Advisors
Franprise Advisors publicly describes business brokerage and franchise advisory services, including acquisition and sale support, valuation, buyer qualification, due diligence, negotiation, financing, and closing assistance.
What stands out about Franprise Advisors
Franprise Advisors serves business and franchise buyers and sellers and describes a structured sale process covering valuation, marketing, buyer qualification, due diligence, negotiation, financing, and closing. The official business-sale-process page does not publish a fee schedule, minimum transaction size, or representative completed-transaction list, and the official Businesses for Sale page does not identify at least three named, dated completed transactions in its accessible page text.[1][2][3][4][5][7]
What does Franprise Advisors do?
Franprise Advisors is a business brokerage and franchise advisory firm whose official website provides buyer, seller, and franchise-business service channels. Its public services include helping clients buy businesses and franchises, sell businesses or franchises, and franchise existing businesses.
The official About page identifies locations in Media, Pennsylvania and Palm Coast, Florida. It also identifies Michael Touey as President and describes him as a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience starting and scaling businesses in the U.S. market.[1][2]
Franprise Advisors publicly describes franchise research assistance, franchisee validation, funding assistance and analysis, legal-support coordination, and franchisor due-diligence support. For sellers, it describes preparing a business for sale, estimating value, organizing financial records, marketing, qualifying buyers, negotiating terms, preparing sales documents, and completing closing.[3][4]
Owners comparing intermediaries can also review Auxo’s business broker, M&A advisor and investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and M&A advisor fee guide.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Franprise Advisors?
Owners evaluating Franprise Advisors can compare the publicly described sell-side scope—preparation, valuation, financial-record organization, marketing, buyer qualification, negotiation, sales-document preparation, and closing—with the terms of a proposed engagement.
Because the official business-sale-process page does not publish a fee schedule, commission percentage, minimum transaction size, or representative completed-transaction list, an owner should request those details directly. The official Businesses for Sale page also does not identify at least three named, dated completed transactions, sale prices, buyer identities, or other transaction-level details in its accessible page text.[4][5][7]
What are the engagement fee, commission, retainer, expense, exclusivity, tail, and termination terms
How many comparable businesses has the firm sold, and can it provide references
What size transactions does Franprise Advisors handle?
The official sale-process description presents an eight-step sequence covering advisor selection, valuation, marketing materials, buyer qualification, due diligence, negotiation, financing and term-sheet structuring, and funding and closing.
The official About page identifies Michael Touey as President and describes him as a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience starting and scaling businesses in the U.S. market.[2][5]
Franprise Advisors publicly describes support for buying and selling businesses and franchises, as well as franchising existing businesses. Its sale-related services include valuation, marketing, buyer qualification, due diligence, negotiation, financing and term-sheet structuring, and closing support.[1][4][5]
An IBBA profile for Michael Touey at Franprise Advisors lists specialty areas including auto-related businesses, construction, eCommerce, education services, entertainment and recreation, finance and insurance, food and beverage, health care and social assistance, manufacturing, print and media, public administration, real estate rental and leasing, retail trade, technical services, transportation, waste management, and wholesale trade.
The listed specialties describe areas associated with the IBBA profile; they do not establish an exclusive firm-wide sector mandate.[6]
What does Franprise Advisors publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The official Sell Your Business page does not state a minimum revenue, EBITDA, purchase-price, employee-count, transaction-size, or seller-qualification threshold.
The official business-sale-process page does not publish a fee schedule, commission percentage, minimum transaction size, or representative completed-transaction list. The official Businesses for Sale page does not identify at least three named, dated completed transactions, sale prices, buyer identities, or other transaction-level details in its accessible page text.
The official homepage does not state a firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, securities-registration number, or comparable regulatory authorization.[1][4][5][7]
The official homepage displays affiliation or credential indicators associated with the Franchise Brokers Association, Franchise Sales Compliance, IFPG, Certified Franchise Consultant, and IBBA.
The official homepage does not state a firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, securities-registration number, or comparable regulatory authorization. The displayed affiliations and credentials should therefore be distinguished from a statement of securities-registration status.[1]
Franprise Advisors describes an eight-step sale process: advisor selection, valuation, marketing materials, buyer qualification, due diligence, negotiation, financing and term-sheet structuring, and funding and closing.[5]
Questions to ask before hiring Franprise Advisors
What transaction sizes, industries, and geographies are currently active in the firm's sell-side pipeline?
What are the engagement fee, commission, retainer, expense, exclusivity, tail, and termination terms?
How many comparable businesses has the firm sold, and can it provide references?
Which professionals handle valuation, legal, tax, financing, and closing work?
What buyer-screening and confidentiality procedures are used?
Does the engagement require any state-specific business-broker or real-estate licensing, and which legal entity signs the engagement letter?
Sources & research notes
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How this profile was researched
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